MA 537 -- Chi Li

Selected Topics in Geometry

M/Th 12:10pm-1:30pm, Hill-005


Instructor/TA Office Office hour Email
Dr. Chi Li Thursday 2pm-3pm chi.li@rutgers.edu

Reference Books Canvas Policies Services

Schedule of topics (updating) and Rutgers Calendar

Week

Sections

Notes

Week 1: 9/5-9/9

Complex manifolds

09/08

Complex structures on S6

Week 2: 9/12-9/16

De Rham and Dolbeault cohomology

Sheaves

09/12

09/15

Week 3: 9/19-9/23

Cohomology of sheaves

de Rham Theorem, Dolbeault Theorem

09/19

09/22

Week 4: 9/26-9/30

Poincare Duality

Intersection of Analytic cycles

09/26

09/29

Week 5: 10/3-10/7

Holomorphic vector bundles, Chern Classes

Hodge theorem

10/03

10/06

Week 6: 10/10-10/14

Hodge theorem

Hirzebruch-Riemann-Roch theorem

10/10

10/13

Week 7: 10/17-10/21

Kahler manifold

Hodge Decomposition, Lefschetz Decomposition

10/17

10/20

Week 8: 10/24-10/28

Line bundles, Divisors

Kodaira vanishing theorem

10/24

10/27

Week 9: 10/31-11/4

Lefschetz hyperplane theorem

Lefschetz (1,1)-theorem, Hodge conjecture

10/31

11/03

Week 10: 11/7-11/11

Kodaira embedding theorem

11/07

11/10

Week 11: 11/14-11/18

Hodge Filtrations of Hypersurfaces

11/14

11/17

Week 12: 11/21-11/25

Lefschetz pencils

11/21

Thanksgiving Recess 11/24-11/28

Week 13: 11/28-12/2

Lefschetz's (1,1) theorem via normal functions

11/28

Week 14: 12/5-12/9

Presentations

Week 15: 12/12-12/16

Classes end on 12/13   Reading Days (12/14-12/15)

Text Books

P. Griffiths and J. Harris: Principles of algebraic geometry
R.O. Wells: Differential Analysis on Complex Manifolds
C. Voisin: Hodge Theory and Complex Algebraic Geometry

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